June 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... first colonisers of Mars. This idea is being put forward by Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and the guru of the Space 2.0 ... commercial potential on Earth. An example of this is that Elon Musk founded not only the SpaceX company, but also the Tesla ...
March 2015
Small is the new big: why micro-satellites require new laws
... the recent attempt from SpaceX (Space Exploration Technologies Corporation), a commercial launch provider created by Paypal’s founder Elon Musk, to land their heavy Falcon 9 first stage on a custom-build ocean platform3? By re-using the first stage...
August 2016
Exploring the problems of criminal justice in space
...; mission to Mars’ Washington Post, June 10 2016 available at https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/06/10/elon-musk-provides-new-details-on-his-mind-blowing-mission-to-mars/ 4 See, for examples of this the discussion by Maschke...
August 2016
Big or small - aerospace innovates through constraints
... engineer, works on satellite assembly at the company’s Glasgow office. In 1999, three years before PayPal’s IPO made Elon Musk a multi-millionaire, Jordi Puig-Suari of California Polytechnic State University and Bob Twiggs of Stanford released their...
April 2019
Space launch industry analysis
... stole the headlines in February 2018 when it launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster sports car into orbit around the Sun... SpaceX stole the headlines in February 2018 when it launched Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster sports car into orbit around the Sun using...
September 2021
Near space - the air-space boundary question, astronauts and space tourism
... slug it out in Earth’s sub-orbital space tourism market, Elon Musk has his sights firmly set on Mars. Caricature by artist James... it out in Earth’s sub-orbital space tourism market, Elon Musk has his sights firmly set on Mars. Caricature by artist...
